Roadmap

/potala palace.

/yamdroktso lake.

For the following week:
04 - Guangzhou

05 to 07 - Hongkong

08 - Dinner at CG's

09 - ICSH (Capitaland)

10 - Family day

directions set for the next 5 years at least,
and i'm hoping the right decisions have been made.

3 more years to a quarter of a century.
now tell me, how not to feel old?

Rose-tinted

sometimes, looking through rose-tinted glasses may be the only viable option.

April 13-17 // Meet the folks, in shanghai.

April 15 // Business Executive Night at the Regent Hotel.

//the bannerman can.

//serene, the surprise.

7 days to our 2nd.
7+3 days to our lhasa,shigatse,mt. everest base camp,gyantze...trip.
6 deadlines before the much anticipated.
Godspeed.

Flowers in the window

correction: not cherry, but peach blossoms.
at 上海南汇桃花村.

Wow, look at you now
Flowers in the window
It’s such a lovely day
And I’m glad that you feel the same


desires are healthy.
but the frustration derived from deprivation can be so overwhelming.
so, where did my baby go?

Where did my baby go?
I wonder where he ran off to
I miss my baby so
I'm calling but I can't get through

Each Day Gets Better

Where do we go, who knows?
But each day gets better

it does, doesn't it?
even with the suffocating amount of work,
the little petty & senseless tiffs,
the sobbing skies,
yada yada.

the act of ameliorating brings more returns than anyone can imagine.
i actually enjoy getting caught in the heavy traffic of projects, proposals, bosses, colleagues, discussions, debates, emails, phonecalls. and next i know, i go "TGIF!" and treat myself to a nice japanese meal. i absolutely love minor quarrels (not huge uproars) and the sweet apologetic state either one, or both will succumb to eventually. and just the thought of how the sun rays will gently plant kisses on my cheeks after the grays... ...awww..each day gets better.

so now, after "letters from iwo jima" & "the shawshank redemption", i'm headin out for dinner. tomorrow, it's gonna be cherry blossoms about an hour away. thereafter, i'll have to make plans for tibet, maybe guangzhou & hong kong, and of course bangkok before my return to sunny island.

Comfortable

/16th:dinner with e-scholars from the university of portland.
followed by 南京步行街，外滩 & New Heights (the all-too-familiar route).

/17th:visited a Jewish synagogue, a baptist church & a chinese temple.
but i was more drawn to this antique store.
& even more so, to the Lamboghini Murcielago below.

/a while back: at 长乐路,
a street that i kinda like.

Our love was, comfortable and so broken in
she's perfect, so flawless
I'm not impressed, I want you back

A john mayer song, of no relevance to my mood whatsoever,
triggered by the word 'comfortable'.

recently, it's just been comfortable.
even the broken water heater doesn't bother me that much anymore.
Content breeds happiness.
so i guess i'm pretty much contented of late.

2Es

虹桥's 大渔 tops the chart.
absolutely flamin'
free deals yesterday:
company's treat @ magaroni for lunch,
& teppanyaki buffet (above) for dinner.

Enlightenment:

Good things happen to good people.
which means, i haven't been good enough.

Empowerment:
SPT consisting of managers mainly.
overall coordinator?!?
in this case, humility proactiveness performance resourcefulness with a subtle, most delicate tinge of assertiveness may be the critical success factors.
oh, GY.

/snack street @ 王府井，北京.

back to the Hansen case.
Business Excellence course 18-190107.

'Bout it

Freshmates.
Jerzy (pronounced as Yury) from Poland.
Daphne from homeland & NTU.

huge-arse king prawns in fermented rice sauce,
that could've triggered the hyperventilation.

18 course company annual dinner.
endless flow of drinks/lucky draw prizes.
sweet.

20 swedish meatballs for 25RMB
hotdog for 3RMB
ilove ikea.

chef minnie & curry II , tomorrow.

Now I been walking up this road tryin' to find which way to go
Tryin' to pull my faith
Sometimes it seems like I don't know

you see, you hear, you feel, you learn.

small is beautiful

/petite lil' bookstore much to my liking.

mondays made more bearable with wakana-san around.
it's time, but the crankiness hasn't quite set in yet.

mood is weather dependent.

frustrating is to hot & humid, just as:
a) stupid : thunderstorms
b) dumb: cloudy
c) retarded : light showers
d) needy : chilly
e) none of the above.

funkytown

6th Shanghai Nanjing Road Sculpture Exhibition

my favourite piece.
you only see what your heart wants you to see.

It's a hard knock life

/southeast CDC dinner.
-070906-
a life without shortcuts is a life most meaningful.